WOMAN SPY SHOT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9793, 17 October 1917, Page 6

WOMAN SPY SHOT

&H INVEIGLING TRAITRESS BETRAYS BRITISH TANKS TO GERMANS. By Telegraph Press A asocintlon—Copyright United Service Telegram. (Received October 16, 8 p.m.) BARIS, October 15. Mntahari, the beautiful Dutch dancer, was shot this morning for espionage. Sho betrayed tanks to Gcrmauj - preceding tho Somme battle. While fulfilling a dancing engagement in Paris she fascinated an English offijlcr wearing tho dragon badge of the tanks corps. They were frequently seen together at cafes. In May, 1916, she applied for a permit to visit a certain port, stating that her fiance was a British officer who had been wounded and wished to marry her before ho died. She arrived simultaneously with _fho first consignment of tanks from England and stayed for a week, having the free run of the port._ A month later sho returned to Paris and obtained a passport for' San Sebastian, in Spain. There sno was scon in company with a suspected German agent. During tho Somm© offensive tho tanks were opposed by a now German gun expressly made for service against tanks. German prisoners admitteu that tho tanks were betrayed. Published in "Tho TimePARIS, October 15. Mafcahardi’s trial revealed that she was duly registered under a nurrbci in tho German spy lists. She admitted receiving largo sums of money since last year for information supplied to leading German spies.